Sunday October 21 An early morning prayer

This soul within assuredly
Is a gift of life from Thee to me
To hold in trust. It is not mine.
The soul I shelter Lord is Thine
To walk in faith; to do Thy will
To righteously life's task fulfill
To keep Thy word and evil spurn
Then prayerfully
To Thee return

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doing great now,been staying positve and got back on track with living life on lifes terms.tevs peice was just what i needed to get my morning with coffee started..ooooooo im in chas today and i hope to catch up on some fossil hunting this week too.soon my spirit will be made whole again if i can just get to my fossil places.dang i miss my fam here.sorry ive been away but im here for good now.luv ya

Glad you're back. Good luck on your fossil hunting. This old fossil(me)used to collect antique art glass. My wife and I admired the beautiful artistic renditions artisans were capable of creating. We felt they should be preserved and admired. Our collecting to a degree served that purpose The fact that we humans are so capable of making things of beauty in glass, paintings, sculptures, buildings etc. should be respected, acknowledged and encouraged; certainly moreso than the glorification of war. But the past will always be history and 'we creations' should be more concerned with our future. So hang in there. In spite of setbacks, ill fortune, tadgedy and the like, I feel the best is yet to come - if only we are worthy of the promised experience. Have you ever read Shelly's 'Ozymandias'? It is an old verse of profound wisdom. Here it is:

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert....Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

tev,you really know how to bring welcome to the door.thanks...here is some of the stuff we found today.aww it felt good to get back in the water.ill blog the story on it this week.right now ive got to get up early so alex and i can get a better time with the ebb tide and 2 hours after flood tide.we plan a full 8 hours monday at the spot we found these.we found most of this right ontop so i guess well be digging them out after the stakes have been set for the hopefull dig